Having A Great Dad Probably Permitted Me

How Much Smaller The Large Places Are Once We're Grown Up, When We Have Car Keys And Credit Cards.

If You Live In The Dark A Long Time And The Sun Comes Out, You Do Not Cross Into It Whistling. There's An Initial Uprush Of Relief At First, Then-for Me, Anyway- A Profound Dislocation. My Old Assumptions About How The World Works Are Buried, Yet My New Ones Aren't Yet Operational.there's Been A Death Of Sorts, But Without A Few Days In Hell, No Resurrection Is Possible.

Poetry Is For Me Eucharistic. You Take Someone Else's Suffering Into Your Body, Their Passion Comes Into Your Body, And In Doing That You Commune, You Take Communion, You Make A Community With Others.

Love Is The Only Passion Which Includes In Its Dreams The Happiness Of Someone Else.

There Are Women Succeeding Beyond Their Wildest Dreams Because Of Their Sobriety.